1931 in Literature - New Books

New Books

  • Shmuel Yosef Agnon - The Bridal Canopy
  • Margery Allingham - Police at the Funeral
  • Pearl S. Buck - The Good Earth
  • Edgar Rice Burroughs
    • A Fighting Man of Mars
    • Tarzan the Invincible
  • Morley Callaghan - No Man's Meat
  • John Dickson Carr
    • Castle Skull
    • The Lost Gallows
  • Willa Cather - Shadows on the Rock
  • Sigurd Christiansen - To levende og en død
  • Agatha Christie - The Sittaford Mystery
  • Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth - The Cat Who Went to Heaven
  • A. J. Cronin - Hatter's Castle
  • E. E. Cummings - CIOPW
  • Detection Club - The Floating Admiral
  • William Faulkner
    • Sanctuary
    • These 13
  • Jessie Redmon Fauset - The Chinaberry Tree
  • Emma Goldman - Living My Life
  • Caroline Gordon - Penhally
  • Dashiell Hammett - The Glass Key
  • Georgette Heyer - The Conqueror
  • James Hilton - Murder at School
  • Knud Holmboe - Desert Encounter
  • Fannie Hurst - Back Street
  • Francis Iles - Malice Aforethought
  • Erich Kästner - The 35th of May, or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas
  • Carolyn Keene - The Secret of Shadow Ranch
  • Pierre Mac Orlan - La Bandera
  • Nancy Mitford - Highland Fling
  • Thomas Mofolo - Chaka
  • Leopold Myers - Prince Jali
  • Ilf and Petrov - The Little Golden Calf
  • Anthony Powell - Afternoon Men
  • Ellery Queen - The Dutch Shoe Mystery
  • Arthur Ransome - Swallowdale
  • Erich Remarque - The Road Back
  • Dorothy Sayers - Five Red Herrings
  • George S. Schuyler - Black No More
  • Nevil Shute - Lonely Road
  • Georges Simenon - Pietr-le-Letton
  • Upton Sinclair - Roman Holiday
  • Phoebe Atwood Taylor - The Cape Cod Mystery
  • Sigrid Undset - Wild Orchid
  • Hugh Walpole - Judith Paris
  • Nathanael West - The Dream Life of Balso Snell
  • Virginia Woolf - The Waves
  • P.G. Wodehouse
    • Big Money
    • If I Were You

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